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Colombian Man Pleads Guilty To International Money Laundering Conspiracy

April 07, 2014

ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field (MFD), and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that Luis Alberto Marulanda-(54, Colombia) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. Marulanda faces a maximum penalty...

April 07, 2014

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Leader And A Member Of An International Ethnic-Albanian Organized Crime Syndicate Sentenced To 120 Months And 110 Months Respectively For Drug Trafficking

February 14, 2014

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - On Friday, February 14, 2014, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Gjavit Thaqi, one of the leaders of an international drug trafficking syndicate run by ethnic Albanians located in the United States, Canada and (the "syndicate"), and Robert Rudaj, a member of the syndicate, were sentenced to...

February 14, 2014

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International Narcotics Trafficker Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To The Manufacture, Shipment, And Importation Of Tons Of Cocaine Into The United States And Other Countries

February 05, 2014

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Yesid Rios Suarez pled guilty on February 4, 2013 in...

February 05, 2014

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Leader Of Colombian Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty To Cocaine Importation Conspiracy

February 04, 2014

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United (US) Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announce today that Jose Samir Renteria-Cuero, a/k/a Jose (51, Cali, Colombia) pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to distribute five...

February 04, 2014

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PANEX South Defendant Pleads Guilty To Drug Importation Conspiracy

January 29, 2014

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that Raul Eraso-(54, Cali, Colombia, South America) today pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with conspiring with others...

January 29, 2014

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Four Crewmen Indicted For Drug Trafficking On The High Seas

January 29, 2014

TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District, announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Linberto Gallardo-(42); Uriel Julio (35); Miguel Vasquez-(37), all of Colombia, South...

January 29, 2014

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Alleged International Narcotics Traffickers Extradited From Colombia On Cocaine Importation Charges

January 24, 2014

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade County State Attorney; Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security (ICE-HSI) Miami...

January 24, 2014

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Colombian Narcotics Kingpin Pleads Guilty To Decades-Long Drug Trafficking Charges

January 24, 2014

MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce the guilty plea of Diego Perez Henao...

January 24, 2014

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Member Of An International Ethnic-Albanian Organized Crime Syndicate Sentenced To 115 Months For Drug Trafficking And Attempting To Assassinate Criminal Associate Over Drug Debt

January 10, 2014

BROOKLYN - Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Bajram Lajqi, a member of an international drug trafficking syndicate led by ethnic Albanians located in the United States, Canada, and (the "syndicate"), was sentenced to 115 months in prison -- with credit for the 31 months he has already...

January 10, 2014

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Colombian Drug Kingpin And Cohort Extradited In New York Heroin Trafficking Scheme Millions Of Dollars In Heroin Smuggled In Freight Containers

December 20, 2013

MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced today the...

December 20, 2013